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Brea police investigate fatal shooting of 25-year-old man

By Corina Knoll

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Police investigating the shooting death of a 25-year-old man said Sunday they planned to search a home they believe was the scene of the killing.

Officers in Brea responded at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday to a report of a gunshot victim in the 300 block of Cedar Avenue, said Brea Police Sgt. Jim Griffin.

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When they arrived, they found a man lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was taken to UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, where he was pronounced dead, Griffin said.

Three male occupants of the Cedar Avenue single-family house where officers believe the shooting took place were questioned at by police and released.

No other information was given.

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-- Corina Knoll

Map shows location of where a man was killed in Brea. Source: Google Maps

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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